Apple vs. Ikea

Steve Jobs INGVAR KAMPRAD HELLO Steve Jobs HELLO Ingvar Kamprad IKEA Acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd), and his home parish (Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden) Jobs worked during the summers, spending one summer in an apple orchard; he was so happy there that he later named his first legitimate business "Apple." NAME ORIGIN 11th BILLIONAIRE RANKING 136th Worth Worth $23 billion $ 5.5 billion INE IOLLAE Unknown $1 per year SALARY A silver 2006 Mercedes SL 55 AMG, which has no licence plates. That is, according to Jobs, because they always got stolen Drives a 15-year- old Volvo 240 DRIVES Airline Ticket Only economy class FLIES Private jet Apple employs teams of design and engineering experts who develop product packaging that's as small, light, and protective as possible. The macbook's package is 53 percent smaller than the first-generation macbook. IKEA hatched the flat-package idea in the 1950s when an employee could not fit a table in the trunk of a car. The TI PACKAGE worker decided to take the legs off and reattach them later. By shipping furni- ture unassembled in flat packages, IKEA saved on shipping costs and assembly. EMPLOYEES 75,000 MacBook 49,400 $31.7 billion $20 billion SALES Apple simply doesn't have any programs which focus on charitable giving The Dutch-registered Stichting INGKA Foundation is named after Kamprad, and owns INGKA Holding, the parent company for all IKEA stores. The foun- dation was reported by The Economist to be technically the world's wealthiest charity – with an estimated value of at least US$36 billion in 2006 (larger than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) - but its primary purpose is believed by some to be corporate tax-avoidance and anti-takeover protection for IKEA. Kamprad is chairman of the foundation. CHARITY The Apple personal computer changed people's idea of what a computer should be. Thanks to the Apple, people's image of computers changed from being a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by large companies and the government to a small compact box used by ordinary people. Good Design, Good Function and Good Quality, with Low Prices KNOWN FOR When he was turning 80 he said: I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying. Steve Jobs did not want to become FUN FACTS employee No. 2 at Apple after his friend Steve Wozniak, so he insisted on becoming employee No. 0, so he did! Kamprad was born in the south of Sweden and raised on a farm 1926 called Elmtaryd, near the small village of Agunnaryd. It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. 1943 When he was 17 years old his father gave him a gift for succeeding in his studies. The gift was used to establish his own business. The first IKEA advertisements appeared when Ingvar Kamprad outgrew his ability to make individual sales calls. So he began advertising in local newspapers and began operating a makeshift mail order catalog. 1945 Fagen Till goela inh Med KATALOG 1951 IHEA Älmhult Sve ges största M ÖPPET i- Pressure from its competitors caused suppliers to boycott IKEA. IKEA begins designing its own furniture. 1955 1955 IKEA pioneered flat pack furniture back in 1956. They began thinking about designing flat pack furniture when an employee had to remove the legs off a Lovet table to fit it in a car. This simple but ingenious idea took off, and flatpack became part of the Ikea "concept", and was exported from Sweden around the world. 1956 Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, CA to an American mother and a Syrian father - Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali, a graduate student who later became a political science professor. One week after his birth, Jobs was put up for adoption by his unmarried mother. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, CA. 119T You can do so much in 10 minutes' time. Ivins, D. Jackson Jacobs, P Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of Jansen, M Jillie, P Jobs, S. Johnson, Jones, C them as possible in meaningless activity. Judd, K In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but he dropped out after only one semester. Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari. Jobs and Wozniak went into business briefly in 1974 to build "blue boxes" that allowed free long distance calls. 1972 Jobs then backpacked around India with a Reed College friend, Daniel Kottke, in search of philosophical enlightenment. He came back a In 1973, the first store outside Scandinavia was opened just outside Zurich, Switzerland, followed by rapid expansion in Germany starting with IKEA Munich in 1974. Germany still remains the largest IKEA market today. 1973 Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. 1974 Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [h had] done in [his] life". He has stated that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking. The first IKEA stores are opened in Canada and The Netherlands. 1975 1976 Jobs saw a computer that Wozniak had designed for his use, after which he convinced Wozniak to join him and they started a company to market the computer. Apple Computer Co. was incorporated on April 1, 1976. He was 21 years old. APPLES COMPUTER As Apple continued to grow, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion. Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola, to serve as Apple's CEO. 1983 The introduction of the Macintosh, the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface. 1984 Following an internal power stru- ggle, Jobs was stripped of his duties by the board of directors. After leaving Apple, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. The first IKEA store opens in the USA. 1985 1985 1986 Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division from George Lucas for $10 million and named the new computer animation studio Pixar. Jobs marketed NEXT products to the scien- tific and academic fields because of the İnnovative, experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the DSP chip, and the built-in Ethernet port). 爱 的 新 体验 INEA IKEA reaches 114 stores in 25 countries. 1993 In 1994 it was revealed that Kamprad has attended some pro-Nazi meetings during the 40s, He publicly apologized for his involvement and even wrote letters to 1994 The first film produced by Pixar, "Toy Story" brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio. employees acknowledging his mistakes. 1995 Apple bought NEXT for $402 million, bringing Jobs back to the company he founded. 1996 He became Apple's interim CEO after the directors lost confidence in and ousted then-CEO Gil Amelio in a boardroom coup. IKEA Introduces Children's IKEA. IKEA has always provided furnishings for the entire family, so since kids are the most important people in the world, IKEA decided to put them in the spotlight. 1997 1997 Over the next few years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company produced box office hits - A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), and The Incredibles (2004). 1998 IKEA has 53,000 co-workers across a global network of over 150 stores in 29 countries on four continents. 1999 Jobs was also prominently featured in three films about the history of the per- sonal computing industry: The first IKEA store opens in Russia. 2000 Triumph of the Nerds (1996) O)PBS HOME VIDEO Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) E. 1 METVORINH THE M CVOL. INE THE T TRIUMPH ИКЕА Для вашего дома MENERDS LEADING Nerdsz 2.0.1 A Brief History of the Internet AN IRREVERENT HISTORY OF THE PC INDUSTRY Wen and henedy so CN DESIGN The KE Story Leading By Design: The Ikea Story (1999) is a book by Bertil Torekull and Ingvar Kamprad. veKamgradwith Be ToA Nerds 2.0.1 VOLUME MA ING THarasos VOLUME ONG TH A VOLUME ECAEAT ARTATESTEAL (1998) Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7 percent of the company's As of March, the sliding value of the U.S. dollar put Kamprad ahead as the richest person in the world in another report. 2005 2006 stock. Steve Jobs introduces Apple TV and iPhone at Macworld. Apple Computer becomes Apple Inc. 2007 Steve Jobs introduces the world's thinnest notebook, the MacBook Air, at Macworld. 2008 Steve Jobs takes a medical leave of absence for six months. 2009 IKEA Gives Bikes to Its 12,400 U.S. Employees Steve Jobs unveils iPad, the much- anticipated Apple tablet. 2010 2010 Ten workers at Taiwanese company Foxconn, where iphone and Ipads are made, have killed themselves this year, all by jumping off buildings at it's factory in Shenzhen, China. The workers have been making just $140 per month but have recently been given a 30% pay rise, so they are now earning around $190 per month. SOURCES: http://www.forbes.com http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com http://www.cultofmac.com http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com http://www.amazon.com http://wikipedia.org http://hardwareinsight.com http://ikea.com FIXT QR TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS